"Solace and Solitude" (Jane Austen) by kellychambliss

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Title: Solace and Solitude
Author: kellychambliss
Fandom: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Characters: Lydia Bennet, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Anne de Bourgh
Word Count: 3500
Summary: Mr and Mrs Darcy host a house party at Pemberley for Christmas. The invited guests have an interesting variety of responses.
Prompt: There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. -- Colette (1873-1954), French novelist.
Author's Notes: My everlasting thanks to those best of betas, therealsnape and my beloved partner. La! Writing this story was such fun.


( Solace and Solitude )

Fic: Envy, Undisclosed (Valancy Stirling/Redfern)

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Title: Envy, Undisclosed
Author: h_loquacious (hardly loquacions on FFN)
Fandom: The Blue Castle (by Lucy Maud Montgomery), character Valancy Stirling/Redfern
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Prompt:  11.  Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude. -- Aphra Behn (1640-1689), 17th-century English playwright and spy
Summary: 
Envy can be a funny thing, especially if it's a secret.  It can be
useful, but it's very rarely good.  Nonetheless, most of us know what it
feels like.
Author's Notes: Not much to say here.  This wasmy first time writing book!fic.  It was interesting, but I'm not sure it
was my favourite medium.  Thanks to spyglass_ for the beta, especially on relatively short notice!

Fic is at my journal